Last night was Trick-or-treat night. Today, the Nor'easter hit.

Have about 8 inches so far, maybe 3-4 more to go.

This stuff is heavy breaking many trees like my neighbor's.

How's the other Easterners making out?

Poor bastards.

My poor broken pecan tree. It has given us much shade.

Its been a seriously weird weather year in the MidA/TriState area.

Zach

Snowing in Northern DE too...but I'm a tad south of that. Rainy and blustery here all day. We've got guests in town from Baltimore and they were sent pix of their home with 2" on the ground earlier today.

I heard on the news this is the first pre-Halloween snow storm in the NE since 1952.

According to the Sun, its the first pre-halloween storm in the Baltimore area since 1925.

Zach

What's that white stuff?

Its called snow. it is a lot of fun!

In December.


Zach

Maybe I switched some digits

Can't believe you guys are getting dumped on like that.

If they are throwing salt, get them teeners inside!!!

So, would it be cruel for me to post a picture of our perfect sunny and 70 degree day we are having in CA?

My wife and kid are going to DC tomorrow night will this be a problem for them?

Supposed to be 80 for THOMAS' Halloween run tomorrow!

Not here and I am by Canada suck it up Ray.

That's really odd. Wife and I both remember snow before Halloween, and wearing coats and snow boots while it snowed during trick or treating.

I remember it two winters in a row, and my wife remembers more than that.

Wife grew up in Pennsyltucky, and I spent time in the northern tip of Maine.

And it was well after 1924....

You don't think Dr. Hansen has been editing the non- cooperative climate data again???

A little snow won't keep me from carving pumpkins.

It might keep anyone from seeing them since no one will be trick or treating tonight...

Zach

Neighbors tree snapped this afternoon & I waited a day too long to tarp the firewood. I agree Zach, strange weather this year.

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Got 4" here in south of Pittsburgh. Weird. Its mostly gone......leaving mud in its wake

Kick ass picture!

Why would they be trick or treating tonight anyway? Halloween is Monday....

And it was probably upper 70s here

Yep... 78 and sunny here. No snow for 300 miles

Got a few large branches that fell. Only looked to be 3-4" but when I scraped the sidewalk, it was HEAVY. Not like a winter snow at all.

Sun is shining now and a lot of it will melt... of course that means the roads will be wet... thinking no Ninja for me today...

We do Halloween on the Friday before the 31st. The township has been doing this for some time.

I'm all for it because this way it does not occur on a school night.

We usually have candy for the kids and beers for the adults. My next door neighbor always has a bonfire afterwards. It's nice to do this on Fridays.

Heavy snow like that is never good when theres still some leaves on the trees. Hows the power lines? I was through PA and NY last month on my way to restore power to people in MA.

Local media reports that 22,000 people are without power in the Tri-State area (WV panhandle, Western MD, Cumberland Valley PA).

Ct Light & Power claims 770,000 outages.
We lost power yesterday even before most of the snow fell.
6" of heavy wet snow accumulated on our driveway and yard.
Running on generator power right now.

Rather large branches down...

Jeff, you ask a pertinent question. When I moved here from CA I was acquainted with the term "trick or treat night" instead of Halloween. In PA at least, they assign what nights around Oct 31 that each township will be going out and trick-or-treating. The good side is that kids can do multiple towns on different nights. The part I dont get is, why? It appears that they have removed the concept of Halloween and replaced it with only trick-or-treating.

And that snow they had to make
Thanks Dr Evil, I was kinda confused about that. I love Halloween, my favorite sorta holiday. No Bs, just fun and candy. No spending money you don't have, no driving around anywhere.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, too

14 inches here in Western Mass. No power in sight.

We made three very large snowmen in my front yard, figure i would decorate them for halloween.

Dr Evil I was just in Washinton PA, for a meeting looks like Just got out in time>

Damn. Heavy snow on leafed out trees is a nightmare for any utility. Things are just patched back together after the hurricane.

I worked in Eastern Mass: Quincy, Milton, Norwell, Pembroke and Hanover. Beautiful area. Not one straight road, $5.99 lobster dinners and beautiful women everywhere. If it wasn't for Mother Nature handing you your a$$ every other week I'd retire out there.

Beautiful women everywhere in Eastern MA? Really? I figured sweaters, meat on the bone, and pasty.

Remember I'm from Wisconsin. They don't get any bigger or pastier than here.

Nah,.....no snow here on the south coast of Mass which equals no salt on the roads,... yet. Just lots of rain and wind.
Don

Hmmm...I was just racing at Carolina Motorsports Park this weekend at the PCA Club Race. Beautiful weather.

This is why I moved South. More months to drive/race/etc...

Evening news reported 600 K people still without power in Massachusetts.

We got power back this morning.

Pecan tree is toast. Every other limb is shattered. The 1/2 dead elm of course came through without damage. Of course the nice shade tree bought it. Me and my father in law will probably cut it down next weekend.

LOTS of down trees. The snow is all but melted away at this point. was a beautiful morning, but the storm f'ing sucked.

Watching Dead Snow now. Good gory fun.

Zach

We have a lot of trees down and widespread power outages in Central NJ. If this is preview of this winter we're in for one hell of a ride.

Power is fine around me, but trees down everywhere you look.

Snow cancelled Saturday session of PCA Potomac DE at Summit Point but Sunday was beautiful even if a little slick first run sessions
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We are trying to save the pecan tree!

My FIL, Theo and I have trimmed the damage to the lower 20 feet of the tree. We will need to hire someone to get the upper 20 ft.


The tree is in the back ground with most of the lower branches cut away. Theo is helping me clean up!


Theo is stamping down the pecan brush so we can get it all into the trailer.


After this pic was taken we doubled the amount of brush in the trailer.

The bigger wood I got rid of via craigslist. Set up an add saying I had cut hardwood at the curb, free, come and get it. Don't call, don't write, just pick it up. An hour later some dude was there with a flashlight and pickup. Nice!

There is still a LOT that needs to come out of this tree, but I can't get the money out of the Wifenbanker to get the work done. Still, I think we will be able to save it. I hope so, I really like this tree.

Zach

Wow Theo is growing up fast! I really enjoy pecans in the fall. Did your tree produce very much before it was injured? I've never really thought about them being this far north.

I have only ever seen 1 pecan fall from this tree. I did not even know what kind of tree it was for years, even though I had some pecan trees growing up in Texas - but they fruited at ton, and this one never does.

Zach

I totally forgot to post this on the 5th of November. I go outside on a Southern Oregon morning in early November (saturday) and this was what we had.


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